While the 2015 film was a fun and campy romp of the “Goosebumps” creatures coming to life, this is more reminiscent of its source material and the television series, but with a bigger budget. This is distinctively a “Goosebumps” movie that has the same nature that the TV show had.

In Hotel Transylvania 2 you have nothing but jokes and Family Guy type cutaways, but with cringing pop culture references throughout. The first film didn't use much pop culture jokes, but now we get jokes referring to selfies, Batman, Sesame Street, and most of out of nowhere dance sequences or jokes referring to modern pop music.